guttle vs raven what difference

what is difference between guttle and raven

English

Etymology

Attested since about 1650, from gut (“belly”) +‎ -le. Possibly influenced by guzzle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌ.t(ə)l/, [ˈɡʌ.ɾl̩]
• Rhymes: -ʌtəl

Verb

guttle (third-person singular simple present guttles, present participle guttling, simple past and past participle guttled)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To eat voraciously; to swallow greedily.

   Synonyms: gorge, gobble, gormandize, wolf down

   • c. 1692, Dryden, Translations From Persius, The Sixth Satire of Pursius:

     His jolly brother, opposite in sense, / Laughs at his thrift; and lavish of expence / Quaffs, crams, and guttles, in his own defence.

   • 1890s, Poverty Knock:

     I know I can guttle, when I hear my shuttle, go poverty, poverty knock.

2. To swallow.
   • 1692 Sir Roger L’Estrange, Fables Of Aesop And Other Eminent Mythologists:

     The fool spit in his porridge, to try if they’d hiss : they did not hiss, and so he guttled them up, and scalded his chops

3. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England) To make a bubbling sound.
4. (Britain, dialectal, Scotland) To remove the guts from; eviscerate.

Derived terms

• guttler

Translations

See also

• devour
• gorge
• gobble
• gulp

References

• Samuel Johnson (15 April 1755), “To GU′TTLE”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […] In Two Volumes, volume II (L–Z), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], OCLC 1637325, column 1.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English raven, reven, from Old English hræfn, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn, from Proto-Germanic *hrabnaz.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rāʹvən, IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪvən/
• Rhymes: -eɪvən

Noun

raven (countable and uncountable, plural ravens)

1. (countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
2. A jet-black colour.

Derived terms

• Australian raven (Corvus coronoides)
• brown-necked raven (Corvus ruficollis)
• Chatham raven (Corvus moriorum)
• Chihuahuan raven (Corvus cryptoleucus)
• common raven (Corvus corax)
• dwarf raven (Corvus edithae)
• fan-tailed raven (Corvus rhipidurus)
• forest raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
• little raven (Corvus mellori)
• New Zealand raven (Corvus antipodum)
• northern raven (Corvus corax)
• pied raven
• raven-messenger
• relict raven (Corvus tasmanicus boreus)
• Somali raven (Corvus edithae)
• Tasmanian raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
• thick-billed raven (Corvus crassirostris)
• western raven (Corvus corax sinuatus)
• white-necked raven (Corvus albicollis)

Translations

Adjective

raven (not comparable)

1. Of the color of the raven; jet-black

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ravene, ravine, from Old French raviner (“rush, seize by force”), itself from ravine (“rapine”), from Latin rapīna (“plundering, loot”), itself from rapere (“seize, plunder, abduct”).

Alternative forms

• ravin, ravine

Pronunciation

• enPR: răvʹən, IPA^(key): /ˈɹævən/
• Rhymes: -ævən

Noun

raven (plural ravens)

1. Rapine; rapacity.
2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

Translations

Verb

raven (third-person singular simple present ravens, present participle ravening, simple past and past participle ravened)

1. (transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
2. (transitive) To devour with great eagerness.
3. (transitive) To prey on with rapacity.

   The raven is both a scavenger, who ravens a dead animal almost like a vulture, and a bird of prey, who commonly ravens to catch a rodent.

4. (intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).
   • 1587, Leonard Mascall, The First Booke of Cattell, London, “The nature and qualities of hogges, and also the gouernement thereof,”^[1]

     […] because hogs are commonly rauening for their meat, more then other cattel, it is meet therefore to haue them ringed, or else they wil doe much hurt in digging and turning vp corne fieldes […]

   • 1852, Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Old Nurse’s Story” in The Old Nurse’s Story and Other Tales,^[2]

     They passed along towards the great hall-door, where the winds howled and ravened for their prey […]

   • 1865, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Were-Wolves, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Chapter 8, p. 114,^[3]

     The Greek were-wolf is closely related to the vampire. The lycanthropist falls into a cataleptic trance, during which his soul leaves his body, enters that of a wolf and ravens for blood.

   • 1931, James B. Fagan, The Improper Duchess, London: Victor Gollancz, 1932, Act 3, p. 237,^[4]

     On one side the great temple where you can gather the good harvest—on the other a dirty little scandal that you’ve nosed out to fling to paper scavengers who feed it to their readin’ millions ravening for pornographic dirt.

Related terms

• ravener
• ravening
• ravenous, ravenously, ravenousness

Further reading

• Corvus corax on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Verna

Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English rave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreːvə(n)/

Verb

raven

1. to (hold a) rave, to party wildly

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraːvə(n)/
• Rhymes: -aːvən

Noun

raven

1. Plural form of raaf

Anagrams

• ervan, varen

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch ravan, from Proto-West Germanic *hrabn.

Noun

rāven m

1. raven

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• rāvene
• rāve

Descendants

• Dutch: raaf
  • Afrikaans: raaf
  • → Sranan Tongo: rafru
• Limburgish: raof

Further reading

• “raven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “raven”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *orvьnъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ràːʋən/

Adjective

rávən (comparative rávnejši, superlative nȁjrávnejši)

1. even, level

Inflection

Alternative forms

• ravȃn (archaic)

Derived terms

• rávnost

Further reading

• “raven”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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